It was nice to see Alicia actually acting like an antagonist.

Also the timing at the end got a laugh from me:

“No, Alicia said all that for my benefit.”

😮 … 😟 … 😠 “Alicia Williams!”

Knowing what I know about why the emperor’s wife’s age is important, I can see that they’re trying to build it up into a mystery that we will slowly unravel, but without that knowledge it definitely seems like just a running gag

I have no knowledge outside what’s been shown in the episodes, but I think it’s fairly obvious that the age is some specific condition from his curse (or similar thing). At the same time, the age gap is definitely pandering to a specific audience. The author knows exactly what they’re doing, it doesn’t matter if there is some in-story pretense. For better or worse, this is the story they wanted to tell.

Jill did establish that their relationship should be platonic, which is nice. Hopefully that’s not just a front. The fact that the Jill is mentally older does help make it a little less gross (but at the same time, it feels like the author is trying to make an excuse for degeneracy).

Huh, I set my expectations pretty low after the first episode, but this episode was interesting. The emperor is hiding some aspect of his curse, which sets up some intrigue that probably isn’t going to be resolved right away.

I wasn’t expecting the FMC to be able to throw a ship. This show seems like it’s going to be a FMC power fantasy (both with physical power and intellectual prowess), which I think I’ll quite enjoy.

Yep, the age gap passes the realm of strange and lands in incredulous. I’m not actually sure how much older Duke is, 5 years? Most of the comments on MAL are saying that Duke is way out of line.

Episode 1 dropped heavy hints, so it’s not so surprising. Reincarnation romance is almost always going to be a little hairy, just not usually in this way.

Makeine is more like Alya in that they romantic comedies. Makeine is heavier on the comedy, with a heavy reliance on failed-romance to drive the comedy/plot forward. Alya has a more prominent non-romantic drama plot that runs alongside the romance/flirting. Both feed a bit into a basic male sexual fantasy (Alya more so, but episode 2 of Makeine had a pretty unnecessarily spicy scene).

Days with my Stepsister is more of a romance / coming-of-age story without much comedy and I feel like it doesn’t excessively feed into a sexual fantasy. There’s like 1 exception early-ish in the season, but even that kinda felt like the main purpose was to shake up the story, rather than getting the viewers horny.

but if you believe AC

Every time I see an AC ranking with shows I’ve watched I’m reminded that I shouldn’t trust AC.

An 86 minute start to the season. You gotta love it. There was a lot of setup, a half-dozen story threads started (or maybe a full-dozen), but they got to a very impactful scene at the end and left us with a good hook.

Absolute banger, highlight of the summer 2024 season.

I liked season 3’s talking around a table more than season 2’s talking around a table, for the most part.

But if things finally shake out in the next season, that sounds like a lot of fun.

Ossan Newbie Adventurer

I just binged this show on a whim and I had a great time. It’s rather generic and the animation was not great, but it was charming and funny. By the end I was invested and that last fight was a ride. Though I probably wouldn’t have liked it as much if I didn’t binge it.

I’d think so. 3k is so many pixels to compute and send 60 times a second.

But this video says the effect on battery life in their test was like 6%, going from 4k to 800x600. I can imagine that some screens are better at saving power when running at lower resolutions… but what screen manufacturer would optimize energy consumption for anything but maximum resolution? 🤔 I guess the computation of the pixels isn’t much compared to the expense of having those physical dots. But maybe if your web browser was ray-traced? … ?!

Also, if you take a 2880x1800 screen and divide by 2 (to avoid fractional scaling), you get 1440x900 (this is not 1440p), which is a little closer to 720p than 1080p.

Hmm, it’s not so clear to me what the obvious loophole is. There’s 2 reasonable loopholes that come to mind, but neither strike me as something that Akane would so viscerally react to. (This is not an invitation to explain, as that invites spoilers-camouflaged-as-theory.) The abstract visual does bias me slightly towards one explanation.

Also, the guy at the end… I almost laughed. Maybe that’s intentional, I can’t tell.

I just realized the title of the show is a play on Ningen Shikkaku 🤦.

I got a chuckle out of the middle one.

The middle one I could find somebody mention online before the episode came out, the other two don’t show up at all. So the middle one I think is from the LN, the other two might be anime original (or maybe just not funny enough to post online). I have a feeling these are just referencing LNs this time. The cover arts feel inspired as well.

• クラスの１軍女子に、赤スパ投げられてます！
• 借りた部屋にJKが付いてきたけど、食費が高くてもう限界です。
• 銀河皇帝の娘さんは、丁寧な暮らしを望んでいる。

4. Engage Kiss
5. Silent Witch
6. 86
7. WORKING!!
8. This one is apparently in the novel, so it’s probably not a direct reference to an A-1 anime.
9. Vividred Operation
10. Kaguya-sama
11. Persona
12. Watakoi

https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2173684

There’s so much going on in this episode, lots of jokes. I liked the cafe scene with Yanami.

I haven’t made a bridge to a VM before today, or made a bridge with Network Manager. That being said, I was able to persuade Network Manger to get a bridge working, and there are a few things I can note:

• When you setup the bridge, the host network interface should become a slave to the bridge. This means that the physical network interface should not have an IP Address, and your bridge should now be where you configure the host’s IP address.

  • After you start the VM, you should be able to run ip link | grep 'master br0' on the host, and it should display 2 interfaces which are slaves to br0. One for the physical ethernet interface, one for the VM (vnet). And it should only list your ethernet interface when the VM is off.

• The RedHat tutorial does not show the bridge and the host having different IP addresses, the RedHat tutorial shows the bridge and the guest having different IP addresses. Actually, no, the RedHat tutorial shows the libvirt NAT bridge, not even the bridge that the tutorial describes creating… If you set the IP address of virbr0, I don’t know what happens.

• If your VM’s network adapter is connected to the host’s bridge, then you should be able to log into your VM and set a static IP address.

I had a lot of problems getting Network Manager to actually use my ethernet interface as a slave for the bridge. Here’s what worked for me, though:

nmcli con show
nmcli con down 'Wired Connection 1'
nmcli con modify 'Wired Connection 1' connection.autoconnect no
nmcli con add type bridge con-name br0 ifname br0
nmcli connection add type bridge-slave ifname enp7s0 master br0
nmcli con modify br0 connection.autoconnect yes
nmcli con modify bridge-slave-enp7s0 connection.autoconnect yes
nmcli con modify br0 ipv4.method manual ipv4.addresses 172.16.0.231/24 bridge.stp no
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service
nmcli con show
ip addr

• Instead of enp7s0, you’d use enp1s0 I guess.
• Above, I manually set my bridge IP address to a static address because my ethernet interface is wired directly to another computer, so no DHCP for me. If you have DHCP on your ethernet network, you probably don’t need to set “ipv4.method” or “ipv4.addresses”.
• I set “bridge.stp” to “no” because my network doesn’t have any redundant paths, and the stp process seems to take like 25 seconds before I can use the bridge network.

After that, I can go into “Virtual Machine Manger”, set my VM’s NIC’s Network Source to “Bridge device…”, Device name to"br0", boot my VM, login to my VM, configure my VM’s ip address. And then I can connect to the VM’s IP address from the physical ethernet network.

Ah, friends. Of course. Friends.

looks at the genres on MyAnimeList

Genres: Fantasy, Slice of Life

Little did I expect that this anime is about 2 asexual people becoming friends.

It was great to see he finally getting his moment, to see him pulling that move from the Tokyo Blade manga out of nowhere and making the crowd go wild.

It’s always nice to see the underdog succeed with hard work and dedication. And in this case, it’s an underdog story for a side-character that began back in the previous season, so it has more impact compared to if Melt was introduced for this arc.

If this was real, Melt’s sword kick & flip performance would be absolutely insane to watch, compared to his previous acting. I guess the show shows this with the Sweet Today’s author’s initial dumbfounded reaction.

I really like the mix and comedy and drama that this anime creates. Somehow the comedy punchlines to the drama scenes make the world feel more grounded.